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    Trump's withdrawal from the TPP, threatening tariffs on mexican imports and threatening to scrap NAFTA all have to do with creating jobs for american factory workers.

    problem is, I don't know many or any people that are clamouring to work in a factory these days, definitely not students, I don't think it's any kid's career ambition to be a factory worker.

    So instead of focusing efforts on education and innovation and jobs of the future, he just wants to employ a nation of drones? Drones who's job could be better done by machines anyway.

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    • I agree, who wants go to a temperture controlled office everyday, sit behind a computer, drink Starbucks, go to meetings, and sur the web. Sounds horriblerobotron3k
    • he thinks that's the way to fight China maybe...Beeswax
    • non political, but that is where those jobs are headed. a lot of jobs are going to be automated.keewee
    • < This. Plus I believe Trump want's to renegotiate so he and his family can get better deals on their imports. Believe it.hobgoblin
    • And by "their imports" I mean "the shit clothing brands of the Trumps and all the Chinese building materials Trump purchases for his shit hotels"hobgoblin
    • right, so he doesn't really give a shit about creating jobs, which he can't just as long as he levels the playing field with China..._niko
    • ...which has an endless supply of cheap unskilled labour_niko
    • the concept behind this isn't that create import taxes so that factory workers will get paid more? and due to labor shortages?sted
    • _niko - for China to maintain political stability with its grand bargain to the people, they can't all stay factory workers forever...BuddhaHat
    • some other countries further down the totem pole will need to participate as well, like Vietnam etc...BuddhaHat
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